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Archive: 1981

Letter from abroad

by Harper’s Staff,

The forgotten war

by Nicholas Bethell,

To arm the Afghans

Washington

by Harper’s Staff,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

Art by Jeff MacNelly,

Head-hunting

by E.R. Galli,

Behind the hindsight saga

by Paul Theroux,

S.J. Perelman remembered

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Stating the Obvious

by Alexander Cockburn,

The cliché crisis

A sense of scale

by Frances Taliaferro,

Charting the world by degrees

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

Orpheus in academe

Music's new lexicon

Going to hell

by Hugh Kenner,

Dante's English muse

Shoot the piano player

by Don Asher,

Tales of an ivory tickler

The state by population

Art by Michael Kidron, Ronald Segal,

Geography 105

by Harper’s Staff,

By prospectus only

by Harper’s Staff,

The public record

by Harper’s Staff,

Tall tale of the tall cowboy

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti,

From Bauhaus to our house

by Tom Wolfe,

The Haig doctrine

by T.D. Allman,

Making the world safe for solipsism

Washington

by Harper’s Staff,

A breach in the wall

by Leszek Kolakowski,

The lesson of Poland's resistance

Shooting Stars

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The sacred grove of celebrity

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Devil’s dictionary

by E.R. Galli,

Cyclical time

by Floyd C. Stuart,

Reinventing the wheel

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Here be dragons

by Jeffrey Burke,

Two writers in search of an audience

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

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